Kabul, September 17, SPA -- At least one person has been killed and several others have been wounded in an air strike by NATO forces, according to local officials in Sarobi district in Kabul on Monday. A police official in Sarobi district, some 40 kilometres east ofthe capital, said Gaz village was bombed all day on Sunday, resulting in death of one villager and wounding four others. Hundreds of families were forced to leave their homes during the bombing, police say. Nader Shah Nizami, police chief of the area where the bombinghappened, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that NATO forces started bombing Gaz village Sunday morning after a joint patrol of Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) came under fire from a home in the village. "Bombing continued from 9:30 am up to the evening yesterday. One civilian was killed, four were wounded and hundreds of families have fled the village, evacuating it completely due to the bombing, " Niazmi said. However, a spokesperson for ISAF said they had no informationabout an air strike in Sarobi district. Sarobi has been one of the restive districts in the vicinity ofKabul since the fall of the Taliban.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/483426
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